3 years agoPutin holds a meeting with Kazakh President Tokayev in Moscow
3 years ago Lavrov now saying Budapest memorandum didn't apply because Maidan revolution was neo-Nazi fascist and the memorandum demanded respect of national minorities
3 years agoBritain: Russia must return its military build-up on Ukraine's borders to stop tension
3 years ago Josep Borrell Fontelles:I replied on behalf of the EU Member States to the letters they received from Minister Lavrov. Tensions and disagreements must be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy. We call on Russia to de-escalate and to reverse its military build-up in and around Ukraine and in Belarus
3 years agoThe first of a number of B-52 bombers, callsign 'HATE14', is now arriving in the United Kingdom and is currently west of Glasgow and descending for RAF Fairford
3 years ago Lavrov following a meeting with the head of the British Foreign Office: it is like a conversation between a dumb and a deaf. Compares talks with frozen ground for invasion of Russian tanks into Ukraine
3 years ago Lavrov: Russia may advise non-essential staff of its diplomatic missions in Ukraine to leave the country
3 years ago Dutch parliament votes in favor of motion calling on the government to freeze the assets of Putin and his oligarchs to stop an invasion in Ukraine
3 years ago Exercises of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea do not interfere with merchant ships - Peskov
3 years ago Ukrainian Foreign Ministry: We strongly protest Russia's decision to block parts of the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait under the pretext of naval drills. The unprecedentedly large area of exercises essentially disables international navigation in both seas
3 years ago NATO SecGen Stoltenberg with PM Johnson describes Russia's military build-up as a "dangerous moment" for Europe. He says, "the number of Russian forces is going up. The warning time for a possible attack is going down"
3 years ago NATO Secretary General warns that Russia has massed "more than 125,000 combat-ready troops" around Ukraine "The readiness and number of Russian forces is going up. The warning time for an attack is going down" - @jensstoltenberg
3 years agoA convoy of Russian military equipment was spotted in Naroulya (Gomel region, Belarus) today. The column included: recovery vehicle (REM KL), T-72B tank of the 1989 model, mobile reconnaissance point PRP-4 on the BMP chassis
3 years ago Ben Wallace heads to Moscow tomorrow for talks with defence minister & key Putin ally Sergey Shoigu. He'll be accompanied by Tony Radakin and commander of field army Lt Gen Ralph Wooddisse. Wallace tells us today we need to look at "lessons from the [ending of the] Cold War"
3 years ago Russian FSB claims it detained network of 14 suspects making false bomb threats, and accused 18y.o. citizen of Ukraine from Volyn region as organizer of network
3 years agoMilitary convoy filmed in Ivnya, Belgorod region
3 years ago Military convoy filmed in Gorshechnoye, Kursk region
3 years ago Liz Truss: We cannot ignore the increase in Russian forces on the border with Ukraine
3 years ago British Foreign Secretary: We are concerned about the Russian military build-up on the border with Ukraine
3 years ago British Foreign Secretary: An outbreak of war in Ukraine would be a disaster for all sides
3 years ago Meeting between Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Lavrov started in Moscow
3 years ago Ukraine's president denounces Russian-Belarusian military exercises as a means of psychological pressure
3 years ago British Defense Minister: The government is ready with a package of sanctions against Russia and will present them to Parliament
3 years ago Polish Defense Minister @mblaszczak @MON_GOV_PL: Ukraine has been surrounded, the south is the annexation of Crimea and rally of troops there, rally in the east along the border and now exercises in Belarus with the participation of Russian troops, from the north
3 years agoFire at Sheremetyevo Airport. The fire broke out in parking lot No. 208. A short circuit occurred while charging the on-board batteries. No damage to aircraft
3 years ago Military convoy filmed in Kursk
3 years ago Toyota Hilux pickups from the Special Operations Forces (SSO) units of the Russian Federation. Smolensk
3 years agoNew military camp deployed near Staryy Oskol
3 years ago Britain sending another 1,000 troops to Poland "to support a humanitarian response in the region should it be needed" per UK government PM @BorisJohnson also traveling to Brussels, Warsaw for discussions with @NATO SecGen @jensstoltenberg & Polish leaders re Russia-Ukraine
3 years agoRussian Navy Northern Fleet's Kola based 121st Landing Ship Brigade vessels Russian Navy Project775 Ropucha class LSTM Georgy Pobedonosets 016 & Olenegorsky Gornyak 012 and Project 11711 Ivan Gren class Pyotr Morgunov 117 transited Bosphorus and entered the Black Sea
